1 Corinthians 7:6

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.